AKM Yusuf

Abul Kalam Mohammad Yusuf (19 March 1926-9 February 2014) was a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician and religious scholar who died in prison from a stroke in 2014 while being indicted for war crimes.

Biography
Abul Kalam Mohammad Yusuf was born on 19 March 1926 in Bagerhat, Bengal Presidency, British Raj to a Sunni Muslim family of Bengalis. He became an Islamic scholar, becoming a madrassa teacher in 1952, the same year that he joined Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. On 5 May 1971, he formed the first team of Razakars during the Bangladesh Liberation War, with 96 members of BJI joining the militia. He was responsible for genocide, killing, looting, arson, and forced conversion to Islam, and on 12 May 2013 he was arrested and tried for war crimes. Some argue that the 87-year-old AKM Yusuf should be released due to old age, but he died of a stroke on 9 February 2014 in prison during his indictment.